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MARCH MADNESS 2024 - Day 20

In another close race, the Equalizer defeats Ernest and sends him to movie jail.

Up today - formative comedies with sophomoric sensibilities.

It's HAPPY MADISON ORIGINS vs AMERICAN PIE.

Fun fact - Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs once presented Adam Sandler with a People's Choice Award! For "Favorite Comedic Movie Actor" !!

With HAPPY MADISON ORIGINS, we'd cover the six Sandler vehicles that led to the creation of his Happy Madison production shingle with LITTLE NICKY:

BILLY MADISON
HAPPY GILMORE
THE WEDDING SINGER
THE WATERBOY
BIG DADDY
LITTLE NICKY

With AMERICAN PIE, we'd cover the four theatrically-released films:

American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
American Reunion

So - Bobby Boucher's momma? Or Stiffler's mom?

Comments

My real birthday is in January but I’ve been celebrating it publicly in May since high school lmao. I call it my May Birthday.

Laura Horstmann

I voted for American Pie *solely* so we could get another Weitz episode.

Sara Malec

I watched little Nicky so many times it broke my vhs player.

Broccololipop

This comment makes me feel proud to be an American

Luke Crawford

Aye, but… there’s the Highlander.

Tyler Duggan

🎯

Martín Peréz

Fart yeah.

Martín Peréz

Sandman could take it all

Anthony Regina

Good on ya -I stupid love Little Nicky

Janet feeney

Doesn't anyone want to force Chris Weitz to talk about all of the sequels he has nothing to do with in a single marathon recording session?

PJ McColl

Since when do we get extras on commentaries? 😂 Someone please Refresh my memory if I’ve forgotten.

Kevin Love Hewitt

You got me straight podcastin’ boo.

David Celaya

I am here to vote for Buscemi’s appearance in Wedding Singer alone

Laura Bee

My money is on Highlander

Tyler Duggan

For a long time I would vocally make the case that it was "this generation's 'Carry On...'. Not sure how that's worked out for either the series or me.

zero

11 y/o psyche Sandler wins for me hands down. When I stop thinking "He called the shit poop" is funny, call a doctor

24HRVideo

I just need Rodney Dangerfield playing with those head boobs in Little Nicky, now that's culture.

Ray

What? You don't like Chris Farleys tits in Billy Madison? Outrageous.

Ray

Do you think him and Adam are still friends? I always see him with the others, but Rob's absent

Ray

I'm struggling to place which ones which lol. Ones aged significantly better comedically.

Ray

Eh, let them do it on their own time. It's Happy's time now.

Ray

I feel like it’s going to be a “Kong versus Godzilla” collision course between Tabletop Games and Happy Madison in the finals, and Tabletop Games might be the only one that could stop it.

Adam Mincks

L

Boo Sting

Is there anything that can stop Happy Madison?

Rebecca C

I can't believe we're just throwing away another Chris Weitz commentary by not voting American Pie. Don't you people understand!?

Ben Staub

Come on get Happy

Jordan Fish

Wow, I had to look this up to see if it was real or a bit. All too real. :-(

Carolyn Lewis

Josh Mclane

Whatever wins, I hope it’s crushed immediately.

DJV

They should have me on as a guest to talk about the time that I, through an insane confluence of circumstances, saw Little Nicky three times in theaters.

Janine Liberty

The battle of 11 year old psyche vs 15 year old psyche

24HRVideo

#Justice4Ernest

Blake R.

If Sandler wins will we get a bonus commentary for Rob Schneider's newest stand up special released by Fox Nation "Woke Up in America"? You'll never believe his material on "cancel culture", I'll just say he's not too fond of it.

CT13

I’m American and I don’t get it either. I think I was too old when his “comedy” was new and I never fell for his man child persona.

Jeremiah Drueke

If there's one thing I'm praying for in this entire March Madness it's that Adam Sandler "comedies" don't win. It's one of those ultimate "I really don't get Americans and the things they like" things for me

Literaltruth

Thank you everyone for supporting my need for Little Nicky to be on the podcast. For those of you that don't know, he is a very sweet boy from the south. The deep south

Jordan Gibson

Justice for Ernest

Justin Hiltz

Happy Madison all the way!

Aaron Crabtree

Finally something I vote for that looks like it will win. I was taking nothing but Ls for the last few matchups. lol.

Misfit Minded

Happy Madison origins seems like a freight train

Owen Condon

Sandler 💯 baby!

Alison R.B.

American Try Hard with a Vengeance

Luke Crawford

I'm pretty disappointed in us as an audience overall...

Luke Crawford

This bracket lost all meaning after Ernest was pushed out

Zachary Stein

I dunno, I think the pursuit of a big-tittied hit went to Sandler's head on that one.

Douglas Wykstra

I'd love an American Pie series some day, especially because I remember the last two entries committing surprisingly hard to the emotional underpinnings of the films in between the sex jokes and gross-out gags (which was always the secret of the first film's success). That said, Happy Madison is just too strong.

Douglas Wykstra

*Bob Barker voice* The Pie is wrong, bitch!

Del Lorenson

The people need to know

Seymour Butz

Voted for American Pie as it’s such a weird franchise and funny to watch as the years go by

Dalton Johnson

I think it has more to do with the fact that American Pie just sucks. But that didn't stop The Equalizer, so let's see what happens...

Luke Crawford

Kevin Nealon boob headed hit

Blank Check with Griffin & David

No thank you to Sandler

Jeff Brax

Little nicky was a big tittied hit with me personally

Adam

He definitely does an absolutely necessary course correct in Waterboy from the Canteen Boy sketches where we’re explicitly supposed to be on Bobby’s side in the movie, versus the SNL sketches where we were supposed to side with the bullies causing Canteen Boy misery

Anthony Pierre Coco

Can we get cyber ninjas to get to the bottom of Ernest getting robbed?

Sean

More like American Tried

Evan

I'm just saying that 102.64 of you are statistically liable if we end up having to listen to an Equalizer series...

Luke Crawford

Maybe I’m showing my age but, Grownups might be the first time I pissed myself laughing. Happy Madison all the way

David Thompson

Voted for American Pie because, even though Happy Madison would rule, that 60% gap is kinda mean. We don't need to do the Pie wrong. Who are we? A bunch of Jims?

Holden Martinson

We can just tell Adam Sandler we ate the pie

Rad Miracle

Before I place the vote, we listening to the R-rated cut where he fucks the pie doggy style or the Unrated cut where he fucks the pie in missionary position?

Matthew Chmiel

OOH. That was the grossest thing I've ever heard in my life. LET’S GO!

Matthew Chmiel

Honestly, I always viewed American Pie as a bro-y thing. Sandler's characters were outsiders, and I always gravitate toward that. I also feel like the first American Pie is the only one I would need commentary for.

Billnetherlands

I think Happy gonna win it all

David Rosenblatt

My heart is absolutely broken over Ernest 😭💔😭💔😭 Is there a thumb on the scale here by suggesting that Jason Biggs yielded the "best" award in this picture?

Luke Crawford

I’m just going to keep making the joke every time Sandler comes up: If voting for Happy Madison Origins is cool, consider me Miles Davis.

Christopher Roundhill

I will die for the Pie

Seymour Butz

MOMMA

Tom Jorgensen

“He’s losing his mind…. And I’m reaping all the benefits!”-john lovitz

Martín Peréz

Sandler is also a total loser in all those movies, except maybe the Wedding Singer where he's such a sweetheart. He's just a combative awkward loser instead of a shy awkward loser.

Mike Ostrov

Allen Covert Ops....that a joke?

Oliver Brindle

How dare you all send Ernest to movie jail

Greg Jagger

Ernest robbed, time for my runner up to win it all

The Real Kal-El

Sandler is going to run the table after this.

zach pyke

Praying Happy Madison goes all the way

Chris

Happy Madison is a WAGON

Curt Weiler

Sandler going all the way

Justin Bertolero

What?

Dustin

As a millennial, this might be the hardest bracket yet.

Matthew Chmiel

About the Blank Check fanbase, rather

Anthony Pierre Coco

It says something about Blank Check that the franchise ostensibly built to speak to us awkward nerds spoke to us less than a silly man going “hadaheehoo”

Anthony Pierre Coco


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